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[1]AWAKE, awake, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. |
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[2]Shake yourself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem; loose the bands from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. |
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[3]For thus says the LORD: You were sold for nought; and you shall be redeemed without money. |
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[4]For thus says the LORD God: My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian carried them away with violence. |
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[5]Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people have been carried away for nought? Their rulers make them to wail, says the LORD; and my name continually all the day is blasphemed. |
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[6]Therefore my people shall know my name in that day; for it is I who spoke; behold, it is I |
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[7]How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings glad tidings of peace; who publishes good tidings of good, and who declares salvation; who says to Zion, Your God reigns! |
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[8]Your watchmen shall lift up their voices; with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. |
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[9]Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. |
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[10]The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. |
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[11]Depart, depart, go out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go out of the midst of her; purge yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the LORD. |
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[12]For you shall not go out with haste nor go by flight; for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will gather you together |
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[13]Behold, my servant shall understand, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. |
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[14]Many were amazed at him; for his appearance was marred more than that of any man, and his form more than that of the sons of men; |
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[15]So shall he purify many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand |